Sarah Silverman Sues Meta and OpenAI Over Unauthorized AI Training
Comedian Sarah Silverman leads a pair of federal lawsuits against Meta and OpenAI, accusing the companies of copyright infringement for using her memoir to train AI models without permission or compensation.
Sarah Silverman takes legal action against Meta and OpenAI by serving as a lead plaintiff in a pair of federal copyright infringement lawsuits. The complaints accuse the tech companies of illegally ingesting copyrighted works to train their artificial intelligence systems without seeking consent or offering compensation to the original authors.
The lawsuits specifically target OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta's LLaMA large language models. Court filings claim that both AI systems incorporate text from Silverman’s 2010 bestselling memoir, "The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee," as part of their vast training datasets.
These legal challenges highlight a growing backlash from creators as AI companies continuously scrape the internet for written material. By filing these suits, Silverman and the other involved plaintiffs push back against the unauthorized use of human creative works to build and profit from automated language tools.